Interview: Israel prepares takeover of Gaza City

KTVU, Bay Area television network affiliate, news show
August 23, 2025: Zunes’s analysis of the worsening situation in Gaza. In the Middle East as negotiators try to broker a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel’s military is preparing to invade and occupy Gaza City. The Israeli defense minister on Wednesday said there are plans to call up 60,000 more reservists and extend the service of another 20,000. The military is urging Palestinians to head south…

Iran Vows Stronger Response If U.S., Israel Attack Again

FO° Talks July 30, 2025 [25 mins.]
Fair Observer’s Rohan Khattar Singh speaks to Professor Stephen Zunes about Iran, Israel and the United States… Trump has brought back the “Maximum Pressure” policy back on Iran with new sanctions, and for the first time, direct military strikes on Iranian soil. Zunes doesn’t believe Iran was building nuclear weapons, but after the recent strikes by Israel and the US, Tehran would now like to build some as a deterrent and is now closer to Russia and China. Also Israel’s military operations and Apartheid conditions in Gaza…

Interviews: The Israel-Iran War, June 2025

*Al Jazeera English, June 19, 2025 [source no longer available]
*For a Bay Area TV network affiliate, KTVU, June 13, 2025
*A 50-minute interview for a British podcast
*A ten-minute interview for a radio show/podcast in upstate New York
*For a national Indian news show, June 13
(along with a pro-war Wall Street Journal reporter):
*A 50-minute interview with a New Zealand radio show and podcast, June 17, hosted by an American expat (in which I also talk about Gaza and about Trump and the resistance)